The Social Contract: Do I have to be uh, Social?

Implied? Explicit? What does it mean to be Social? That mileage may vary as will the Rules of Engagement, everything from your Twitter rules to how you LinkedIn, whether or not you mix the professional with the professional, if this is […]

Please don’t change MY Twitter

Many changes afoot at Twitter. API crackdown. Fare thee well LinkedIn, so long Instagram, smell ya later Tumblr. VIA be gone. Not showing the 3rd party apps on the web, so you won’t see clients like Buffer and TweetChat included in […]

Billy Mack, Social Media Rock Star

What makes social special? How different the world today. It’s more connected than ever, more watched and read, more followed and engaged. Forgetting all the bots and fakers, social media allows people to connect to celebrities, to business moguls, to […]

My influence can beat up your influence.

Back from SoSlam, a copy of Return on Influence sits on my desk, just waiting to be read. Influence. WTH does a Klout score mean anyway? According to reports, Klout and PeerIndex really measure something else. My default position: it doesn’t measure influence so much as […]

New Old Friends and Missed Connections: SoSlam 2012

Tom Webster learned about dealing with presentation failure. Rosemary O’Neill found several pearls of wisdom, and Jenn found many to be ‘profit agnositic.’ Kristen Daukus was impressed by the ladies at SoSlam – because they rocked. Social Slam 2012  Honestly, I […]